An article in the Triangle & State section Sept. 28 reported that U.S. Rep. David Price has introduced a bill that would, among other things, close Guantanamo, rein in interrogation techniques of suspected terrorist captured overseas and give them the same legal rights enjoyed by U.S. civilians and military personnel.

Referring to this country's efforts against the worldwide terrorist threat, Price is quoted as saying, "What we have been doing the last seven years hasn't worked."

Surely Price must know that during the eight years from 1993 to 2001, there were nine major terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in this country and overseas that caused more than 4,000 fatalities with well over 8,000 injured. In the days immediately following 9/11, Congress and the president finally gave the U.S. Intelligence Community permission to go on the offensive against the terrorist threat. In the seven years since then, there have been no terrorist attacks in the U.S. homeland or against our embassies and installations abroad.

Apparently something is working, and it has nothing to do with political hyperbole.

James Gamble, Chapel Hill

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